Ashley Cooper / Bio Methane being captured from a landfill site in Alicante, Costa Blanca, Murcia, Spain. This prevents the gas which is a powerful greenhouse gas from escaping to the atmosphere, which can then be us...

Ashley Cooper / 'Stop Methane Mining on Barton Moss' sign on Chat Moss peat bog, to protest planning permission for fracking and coal bed methane mining, Manchester, England, UK. November 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Methane, extracted from an old landfill site on Walney Island, to power a biogas generator producing green electricity, Cumbria, UK, with the Ormonde offshore wind farm in the background. February 201...

Ashley Cooper / Methane, extracted from an old landfill site on Walney Island, to power a biogas generator producing green electricity, Cumbria, UK, with the Ormonde offshore wind farm in the background. February 201...

Ashley Cooper / Methane, extracted from an old landfill site on Walney Island, to power a biogas generator producing green electricity, Cumbria, UK. February 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Bio Methane being captured from a landfill site in Alicante, Costa Blanca, Murcia, Spain. This prevents the gas which is a powerful greenhouse gas from escaping to the atmosphere, which can then be us...

Ashley Cooper / Bio Methane being captured from a landfill site in Alicante, Costa Blanca, Murcia, Spain. This prevents the gas which is a powerful greenhouse gas from escaping to the atmsphere, which can then be use...

Ashley Cooper / Two sources of renewable energy on Walney Island, Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, UK. In the foreground methane is being captures from an old landfill site, with the Walney windfarm out to sea behind. Jun...

Ashley Cooper / Bio Methane being captured from a landfill site in Alicante, Costa Blanca, Murcia, Spain. This prevents the gas which is a powerful greenhouse gas from escaping to the atmosphere, which can then be us...

Ashley Cooper / Pavement in Fairbanks Alaska collapsing into the ground due to global warming induced permafrost melt. Alaska, USA. August 2004

Ashley Cooper / House in Fairbanks Alaska moved after it started collapsing into the ground due to global warming induced permafrost melt. August 2004

Ashley Cooper / House in Fairbanks, Alaska collapsing into the ground due to global warming induced permafrost melt. Alaska, USA, August 2004

Ashley Cooper / A 'Drunken forest' in Fairbanks, Alaska where trees are collapsing into the ground due to global warming induced permafrost melt. Alaska, USA, September 2004

Ashley Cooper / A 'Drunken forest' in Fairbanks, Alaska where trees are collapsing into the ground due to global warming induced permafrost melt. Alaska, USA, September 2004

Ashley Cooper / Electric pylons in Fairbanks, Alaska collapsing into the ground due to global warming induced permafrost melt. Alaska, USA. August 2004

Ashley Cooper / Road in Fairbanks, Alaska collapsing into the ground due to global warming induced permafrost melt. Alaska, USA. August 2004

Ashley Cooper / A 'Drunken forest' in Fairbanks, Alaska where trees are collapsing into the ground due to global warming induced permafrost melt. Alaska, USA, September 2004

Ashley Cooper / A 'Drunken forest' in Fairbanks, Alaska where trees are collapsing into the ground due to global warming induced permafrost melt. Alaska, USA, August 2004

Ashley Cooper / Eroded cliff in Walney Island, where erosion has revealed buried landill, Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, England, UK. June 2008

Ashley Cooper / Cows at edge of eroded cliff in Walney Island, where erosion has revealed buried landill, Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, England, UK. June 2008

Ashley Cooper / Rubbish on a landfill site in Alicante, Costa Blanca, Murcia, Spain. The site captures bio methane from rotting organic waste. May 2011

Ashley Cooper / Old house at Recherchefjorden, Van Keulenfjorden, Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is gradually sliding down slope due to solifluction and permafrost melt. Norway, July 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Old house at Recherchefjorden, Van Keulenfjorden, Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is gradually sliding down slope due to solifluction and permafrost melt. Norway, July 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Banners protesting at a site on Chat Moss in Manchester that has been given planning permission for fracking and coal bed methane mining, Manchester, England, UK. November.

Ashley Cooper / Banners protesting at a site on Chat Moss in Manchester that has been given planning permission for fracking and coal bed methane mining, Manchester, England, UK. November 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Test drilling site for shale gas near Banks on the outskirts of Southport, Lancashire, England, UK, September 2011.

Doug Perrine / Lava emanating from Pu'u O'o, Kilauea Volcano, erupting in Leilani Estates subdivision, near Pahoa, Puna, Hawaii, USA. The small bright spots in this image are methane explosions. June 2018.

Kevin Schafer / Frozen methane bubbles in winter, Abraham Lake, Canadian Rocky Mountains, Alberta, Canada

Kevin Schafer / Frozen methane bubbles in winter, Abraham Lake, Canadian Rocky Mountains, Alberta, Canada

Tom Gilks / Kivuwatt biogas plant under construction. The plant will remove methane from the waters of Lake Kivu and power three genrators to produce 26MW of electricity. Kibuye, Rwanda, November 2014.

Tom Gilks / Two children standing in front of Kivuwatt biogas plant under construction. The plant will remove methane from the waters of Lake Kivu and power three genrators to produce 26MW of electricity. Kibuye,...

Tom Gilks / Kivuwatt biogas plant under construction. The plant will remove methane from the waters of Lake Kivu and power three genrators to produce 26MW of electricity. Kibuye, Rwanda, November 2014.

Tom Gilks / Kivuwatt biogas plant under construction. The plant will remove methane from the waters of Lake Kivu and power three genrators to produce 26MW of electricity. Kibuye, Rwanda. November 2014.

Tom Gilks / Kivuwatt biogas plant under construction. The plant will remove methane from the waters of Lake Kivu and power three genrators to produce 26MW of electricity. Kibuye, Rwanda, November 2014.

Tom Gilks / Kivuwatt biogas plant under construction. The plant will remove methane from the waters of Lake Kivu and power three genrators to produce 26MW of electricity. Kibuye, Rwanda, November 2014.

Tom Gilks / Kivuwatt biogas plant under construction. The plant will remove methane from the waters of Lake Kivu and power three genrators to produce 26MW of electricity. Kibuye, Rwanda, November 2014.

Tom Gilks / Kivuwatt biogas plant under construction. The plant will remove methane from the waters of Lake Kivu and power three genrators to produce 26MW of electricity. Kibuye, Rwanda, November 2014.

Gerrit Vyn / Hazard sign in Jonah field, a coalbed methane extraction site, near Pinedale, Wyoming, USA. May 2012.

Juan Carlos Munoz / Warning sign to slow down, near woman standing by natural methane gas upwelling, with flags, Hula Valley, Israel, November 2014.

Pascal Tordeux / View inside a bank of electricity producing engines running on methane, part of a biogas plant, Spain, January, 2013.

Pascal Tordeux / Methane recovery apparatus, part of the biogas production process, Spain, January, 2013.

Pascal Tordeux / Tarpaulin bags containing methane inflating on a concrete slab, part of a biogas production process, Spain, January 2013.

Pascal Tordeux / Vertical filters in a biogas plant used to separate methane from carbon dioxide, water and oxygen, Spain January 2013

Ernie Janes / Household waste site in disused quarry with pipe drawing off the methane produced, Norfolk, UK

Nick Upton / Biogas plant with fermenting chambers for methane production from maize silage and silage heap in foreground. Cornau, near Vechta, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Nick Upton / Biogas plant with maize silage being carried by tractor from silage heap to fermenting chambers for methane production. Cornau, near Vechta, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Nick Upton / Biogas plant with fermenting chamber for methane production from maize silage, with silage hopper in foreground. Cornau, near Vechta, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Kevin Schafer / Frozen methane bubbles in winter, Abraham Lake, Canadian Rocky Mountains, Alberta, Canada

Kevin Schafer / Frozen methane bubbles in winter, Abraham Lake, Canadian Rocky Mountains, Alberta, Canada

Kevin Schafer / Frozen methane bubbles in winter, Abraham Lake, Canadian Rocky Mountains, Alberta, Canada

Kevin Schafer / Frozen methane bubbles in winter, Abraham Lake, Canadian Rocky Mountains, Alberta, Canada

Benjamin Olson / Methane trapped in algae bubbles, if released will add to climate change, Lakeville, Minnesota

Gary Braasch / A rush of natural gas is aflame at new oil well. Flaring off gas is a major source of CO2 emissions, methane and black soot, Bakken oil field, North Dakota, USA. October, 2013.